The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-11-02
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER p 1887.
POLITICS IN THE G. A. r.

PGLiTlC5 IN THE 6. A. r.
The Rcb.ks Administered to Foraker,
Tuttls, Etc., by Loyal Veterans.
Pre- ;idcnt Cleveland was not mis-
taken in his estimate of the Union vet.
Gran when he considered him as ami
mated by the desire of aiding and re-
specting the Government he helped to
save. OF course there are exceptions,
such as the blasphemcr, Fairchild; the
ex-cotton grabber, futile, and the
crank, Vandewoort, as during the war
there were bummers in Sherman's
army and ohtlawed guerilas every
where in the track of the Union and
Confederate forces. The Grand Army
of the Republic, as an organization.
must be commended for the decided
manner in which it sat down on the !
partisan demagogues who wished to
put it on record as openly insulting the
President of the United States. Every |
thing that malice and ingenuity could |
suggest was put i'll operation to secure
the official sanction of the order to the
infamous conduct of Tuttle, whose
mouthpiecc. Vandervoort, expended all
the blatant eloquence he was capable
of in the attempt to bolster up the ex-
cotton grabbcr. But thanks to the
healthy public sentiment which has re-
vealed itself in all parts of the country
and to the better and more patriotic
/ element in the Grand Army itself, an
unqualified rebuke was administered
to Tuttle, Fairchild and their adher-
ents. 1t has been officially determined
that the Grand Army of the Republic
does not countenance blackguard at
tacks upon the President of the United
States, even though he be Of a different
political faith from that upheld by that
, organization.
For the Grand Army has distinctly
shown its allegiance to the Republican
party in the attitude it assumed dur
Ing the recent encampmcnt. Politics
took up great portion Of its time, and
It served notice on heparty with which
it afliliates as to what its choice would
be during the Presidential year. One
of the most prominent and gallant
.. Union commanders, General Slocum,
+, who was the principal candidate for
the position that Fairchild disgraced,
was rejected for an obscure Minnesota
, lawyer, simply because he was Dem.
: ocrat. There was something more
than mere buncombe in the expression
. which one fool partisan member OF the
organization is reported to have made,
that ''there never had been a Demo
!, cratic C6mmander-in-Chief, and, by
: the Eternal, there never would be. ,
t The fact that it is Republican organ
ization, emphasizes the more the re
n fusal of the Grand Army to counte
: nance attacks upon the Democratic
n President, and testiics that Union vet
Grams, whatever their politics may be
!. can not be seduccd into adisunion pol
$ icy at the beck of INSCRIPTIONS dema
d gogues. Vandcryoort's resolution
@ urged with all the yehemencc of a ma
= lgnant nature, was defeated by such
t. decisive vote that we will likely hea
o but little for the future Of Tuttleism
n Fairchildism and Forakermania in tn
=. ranks of the Grand Army. A grea
deal is due to the wise and temporal
councils and wholesome influence 9
General Sherman in bringing abou
such satisfactory result.
A. The defeat of the much-discusse
service pension measure by the Nation;
W encampmcnt was singing rebuke t
III those degenerate members who woul
tn turn the order, into a mendcant bod
l and play into the hands of the mo:
~ outrageous lobby tint ever cursed til
nj halls Of Congress, 1--WE will continu
OF to ask for aid until no vail of sorro
at is heard from destitute and disable
m veterans" hypocritically exclaiii
in .Palsy" Fairchild, knowing as he doe
p that the government is now payin
10 $7O,OOO,0o0 year to the 100000 pei
III sioners on its rolls. Another beautif
specimen of the pension shark was OF
nc Comradc Stephen j. Burrows, of Man
field Post, No IS, of this State, wi
M naivcly stated that the surplus shot,
ns 80 to the veterans and 1.-THE taxpayers
he damned" We also have one Ge
ny eral Bennett, of Richmond, Ind, wi
puts the matter in this modest ligll
'ce 1.-The annual surplus reaches $l36, 00(
~ 600. Give the boys the 100000
~ let the thieves keep the $40, GOO, Oh
hs remaining," Such expressions sho
DIV what u disrcputable element the d
e' cent members of the Grand Army h;
~ y. 20 contend against. The buster al
" fury of such an element will have lit
~ effect now that the organization ut
'''n highest council deliberately and effec
lively sat down OH them. 1t is pit
J, IL however, that narrow-minded partisa
he ship should have been carried so far
u, to reject such a distinguished soldi
'io as Slocum because he is democrs
ow His election would have tended
., purify the position in which Fairchi
, ~ brought such lasting obloquy. Abs
wv sA an ~ argus.
ay- SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.
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